Guardian Exclusive:
Pavel Filatyev has fled his homeland after
publishing a 141-page account detailing his experiences on the frontline
…………….“Like
savages, we ate everything there: oats, porridge, jam, honey, coffee … We
didn’t give a damn about anything, we’d already been pushed to the limit. Most
had spent a month in the fields with no hint of comfort, a shower or normal
food.
“What a wild state you can drive people to by
not giving any thought to the fact that they need to sleep, eat and wash,” he
wrote. “Everything around gave us a vile feeling; like wretches we were just
trying to survive.”………………
…………….As frustrations grew on the front, he
wrote about reports of soldiers deliberately shooting themselves in order to
escape the front and collect 3 million roubles (£40,542) in compensation, as
well as rumours of acts of mutilation against captured soldiers and corpses…………
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